PIED FLYCATCHER. 
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of course, consider as an unusual kind of food, 
but at the height of the seasons, we have little 
doubt that some of the stronger billed species 
occasionally indulge in it. We are aware that 
the present bird has been by several accused of 
eating the smaller summer fruits, and we seldom 
find any thing of this kind recorded without 
there being some cause to be assigned ; and we 
mention this, as the fact has been stated, but 
always with a doubt, or without quoting any 
actual instance of it. 
This bird is comparatively a large species, , 
the length being nearly six inches ; the upper 
parts of the body are hair brown, having the 
base, and centre of the feathers on the crown, 
darker ; wings brownish black, the quills and 
secondaries edged, and the coverts also tipped 
with reddish white ; tail of the same colour, 
paler at the tip, and slightly inclining to be 
forked ; the throat, middle of the belly, and 
under tail coverts, white ; the chin, sides of the 
neck, breast, and flanks, streaked or clouded with 
hair brown. The young are of a browner tint, 
and have the centre of the feathers tipped with a 
spot of yellowish white. 
The Pied Flycatcher, Moscicapa lcc- 
tcosa, Ternm. — Musdcapa atricapilla, Gmel . — 
Pied Flycatcher of British authors . — This species 
is much less common than the preceding, and 
also more restricted in its localities. It occurs 
occasionally in some of the southern counties, 
